A few weeks ago, 11-year-old Zvi Ben-David from Be’er Sheva was on family trip to Nahal HaBesor when he caught sight of an unusual object.

On picking it up, he saw it was a pottery figurine of a woman. His mother, Miriam Ben-David – a professional tour guide – realized that it was an important ancient find and contacted Oren Shmueli, district archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority in the western Negev.

In compliance with current Covid-19 restrictions, Oren met Zvi and his family in their garden where they handed him the figurine, which will now be researched and kept in the National Treasures collection. Zvi was awarded a certificate of appreciation for good citizenship by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

According to Oren Shmueli and Debbie Ben Ami, curator of the Iron Age and Persian periods in the Israel Antiquities Authority, “The figurine that Zvi discovered is rare and only one such example exists in the National Treasures collection. It was probably used in the sixth–fifth centuries BCE, at the end of the Iron Age or in the Persian period (the late First Temple period, or the return to Zion). The figurine, 7 cm high and 6 cm wide, was made in a mold. It shows a woman with a scarf covering her head and neck, schematic facial features and a prominent nose. The woman is bare-breasted and her hands are folded under her chest.”

Shmueli and Ben-Ami explain, “Pottery figurines of bare-breasted women are known from various periods in Israel, including the First Temple era. They were common in the home and in everyday life, like the hamsa today, and apparently served as amulets to ensure protection, good luck and prosperity. We must bear in mind that in antiquity, medical understanding was rudimentary. Infant mortality was very high and about a third of those born did not survive. There was little understanding of hygiene, and fertility treatment was naturally non-existent. In the absence of advanced medicine, amulets provided hope and an important way of appealing for aid.”

The figurine was delivered to the National Treasures collection and is currently being studied by Oren Shmueli and Debbie Ben-Ami of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in collaboration with Raz Kletter from the University of Helsinki in Finland.

The archaeologists say, “The exemplary citizenship of young Zvi Ben-David will enable us to improve our understanding of cultic practices in biblical times, and man’s inherent need for material human personifications.”

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Bus driver attacked in Beit Shemesh by Yeshiva Boys

 A bus driver was physically assaulted in Beit Shemesh Monday night, after he refused to allow a passenger to board the bus with an electric bicycle.

The incident occurred on a line 14 bus in Beit Shemesh operated by the Superbus company, when the driver refused to allow the passenger to get on the bus with his bike.

The passenger and several of his friends forced the doors of the bus open and tried to tear them out from the bus.

After the passenger and his friends managed to force the doors open, one of the suspects brought a stick to beat the driver, while his friends made sure the doors remained open.

One of the suspects verbally assaulted the driver and threatened him.

When the driver refused to respond to the threats, he was physically attacked. Thanks to the barrier installed to protect bus drivers, the driver was not injured in the attack.

The driver claimed that one of the assailants tried to take control of the bus, endangering the lives of the passengers.

"Once again we see how bus drivers have become the scapegoats of lawbreakers," said the bus drivers' union in a statement. "This violence will stop only when bus drivers are recognized as public workers. It is unthinkable for us to go back to seeing this kinds of images on a daily basis. Now more than ever we are in danger of having a driver be murdered at the wheel."

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Little Girl Really Misses Her Mother

 

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Instead of Looking for Criminals The FBI is on the hunt for red MAGA hats

 

The FBI is on the hunt for red MAGA hats, using every opportunity to try and delegitimize the movement that exposed them. pic.twitter.com/xgGV6p1e73

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 8, 2021

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New Israeli Navy Captain’s Ancestor Was a German U-Boat Commander

 

Benny graduated from the Israel Navy’s ship captain’s course last week and will join the crew of a new German-made warship,

Remarkably, the uncle of Gerloff’s grandmother was a German U-boat commander in World War 2, Ynet reported Monday.

Gerloff was born and raised in Israel, however his non-Jewish parents are of German and Czech descent and arrived in the Jewish state 25 years ago. As a permanent resident, Gerloff is required to enlist in the IDF, and his family are no strangers to national service.

His brother served as a platoon commander in the Kfir Brigade and his sister was a combat fighter in the IDF’s Oketz canine unit. Benny himself was drafted into the Navy’s elite Shayete 13 commando unit – the equivalent of the U.S. Navy Seals – but when he washed out in the final rounds he reached back to the distant skipper genes from his family and was accepted to the Navy’s prestigious seamanship course.

“The people of Israel in the Land of Israel have a significant part in our faith,” Gerloff, who is Christian, told Ynet. “My great-grandfather was a priest during World War II, with the Germans who opposed Nazism and was therefore persecuted by the Nazis and imprisoned for it.”

“Great-grandfather on the other side helped his Jewish friend send food parcels to his relatives in the concentration camps, and to this day we have some of the letters of thanks he sent him. From there, from those days, my love for Israel was rooted in my family and my father came here at the age of 18 to volunteer,” he explained.

“In our eyes, the people of Israel and the Land of Israel are part of God’s plan and that is why I serve in the IDF and it is important for me to defend the country,” he said

In the black-and-white photo he and his parents keep to this day, Lieutenant Gerloff’s unique story takes on a fascinating meaning: the photo shows his family at a wedding held in southern Germany in the early 1940s, featuring an officer wearing the black uniform of the German navy. That was his grandmother’s uncle, who had been a doctor by profession, but was drafted into the German navy after the outbreak of the war and commanded a submarine that was eventually sunk, apparently by the British navy.

“I don’t know much about him, other than the fact that he was required to enlist,” Gerloff said. “My grandmother always emphasized that he was not a Nazi.”

Most of Gerloff’s family members still live in the area of ​​the town of Neuenberg in the heart of the Black Forest on the French border.

His relatives watched the graduation ceremony via Zoom where Defense Minister Benny Gantz pinned his new officer’s bars on his shoulders, and he said they were very excited.

“Most of them live in Germany and grandparents in particular were happy to see me with navy uniform and officer’s rank,” he said, adding his 89-year-old grandmother in Germany always prays facing towards Jerusalem.

Lieutenant Gerloff will serve as a shift officer on the command bridge of a new Navy ship Saar 6 warship scheduled to arrive in the coming months from the port of Kiel in northern Germany.

“It can definitely be a personal and meaningful closing of a circle for me,” he admits.

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Media Slobbering Over Cuomo Didn't Age Well

 

A truly incredible super cut here.pic.twitter.com/X8aou7Tp7D

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) March 7, 2021

One more lesson from the Cuomo fallout, and this may just be the most important one of all.

If you ever feel like telling God that you are in control, don’t, it’s a bad idea. God usually finds a way to show you who’s boss and he is never late. pic.twitter.com/0K13bFade1

— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) March 7, 2021

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"Go to Shul Already"

 

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Hilarious as Trump Had Meghan Markles's number

 

FLASHBACK:

"I wish a lot of luck to Harry cause he's gonna need it."
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 8, 2021

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Saudi Shocker: Temple Mount is Jewish, Muslims Should Pray Toward Mecca....

 Saudi Twitter users have recently been pushing a new line of thought that plays up the importance of Muslims praying towards the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, while downplaying the importance of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Israel National News(INN) reported Sunday.

The controversial campaign appears to be designed to push the message emphasizing the importance of the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina as the holy places of Islam, and to eliminate the importance of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount for Muslims, thereby decreasing any Islamic authority the Palestinians have over the site.

One of the messages reportedly comes from well-known Saudi cartoonist Fahd al-Jabiri, who tweeted that “the direction of the prayers of the Jews is not important to us, what is important to us is only our homeland.”

Another English-language tweet is by a Moroccan user named Ibtissam Zegiga whose profile says he studies Hebrew and wants peace, and calls on “dear brothers and sisters” to join in the movement.

“This recent Saudi twitter movement believes that there is no importance of the temple mount to Muslims, and the waiting for the [Jewish] third temple. A new era, one of peace.”

According to the report, the Saudi campaign is in response to the Palestinian insults online and chants against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia heard at at demonstrations at the Temple Mount after prayers on Fridays. The Saudis have quietly supported the recent Abraham Accords the established peace between four Arab countries and Israel, and that has infuriated the Palestinians.

The reaction of the Saudis is to emphasize that the Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem is simply a mosque like all mosques, but the direction of prayer for all Muslims no matter where they are on the planet is only towards to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

One tweet from the account Saudi Arabia In Numbers said Muslims were not religiously obligated to help the Palestinians by fighting for Jerusalem, where the Palestinians constantly emphasize that the Al Aqsa mosque is the “third holiest site in Islam.”

“Our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did not leave us with a commandment, even with one word, that Jerusalem must be liberated,” the tweet read, adding, “The only two holy mosques are in [the Saudi cities of] Mecca and Medina.”

“In the end, it is becoming increasingly clear that the main obstacle to achieving the realization of the cry ‘the Temple Mount is in our hands,’ is us ourselves,” Tom Nissani, CEO of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, told INN.

“Now the Saudis and Moroccans also emphasize the strong connection of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount and the diminution of its importance to Islam,” Nisani noted. “This is a historic opportunity to expel the hostile Waqf from the Temple Mount and transfer it to full Israeli management that will allow full freedom of access and religion to the mountain in cooperation with the Emirates, Saudis and Moroccans, Jews and non-Jews who will attain shared goals.”

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Two Boys Sneak Into "Bnos Chava" Seminary ..Get Stuck in Elevator for Hours

 

צוויי בחורים זיך אריינגעכאפט צי בנות חווה סקול, צי זייער גרויס מזל זענען זיי געווארן סטאק אינעם עליוועטער פאר לאנגע שעות ביז מהאט זיי ארויס גענימן... ווי מהאט זיי ארויסגעטראגן פינעם סקול. pic.twitter.com/iWgEO8bbiu

— Hasidic2 (@hasidic_1) March 9, 2021

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